The work of Edouard Traviès represents a pinnacle in Frenchornithological illustration, and his original work is exceedingly rare.Natural history, as a descriptive pursuit bent on identifying newspecies, demanded detailed illustrations. The minute precision ofTraviès’ work places him with the best of France’s scientific artists.Traviès was born in Doullens, in the Somme district of France, inMarch 1809, the younger brother of the caricaturist Charles JosephTraviès de Villier (1804-1859). Throughout his career he concentrated on natural history subjects, both in watercolor (he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1866) and lithography.

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